Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-03

90 The district assemblies X. of l.. refuse
to obey Powderly's order and instruct the
Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
81 Martin Irons issues general order to
the Knights to resume work on the Missouri
Pacific
81 Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike of Cohoes spinneTs ended. About
1900 persons affected.
APRIL
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account of the refusal of the com
pauy to reinstate all the strikers.
3. Bloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement of
trains, firing a volley of Winchester rifles into
aposse of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
mortally wounding two others. The officers
replied with revolvers killing one striker
). Mr.. Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
work
Q, Deputy sheriffs in East St Louis fire
into crowd, killing seven persons only one
of whom was striker
H. Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
the settlement of the southwestern strike
Gould replies, justifying his action and re-
fuSing to grant the request of the Knights for
| arbitration.
1G A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
16 Martin Irons, the leader in the great
southwestern strike is, with three others, in
! dicted by the grand grand jury at st. Louis,
for tampering with telegraph wires.
Is Widow Landgraff boycotted in New
York city for employing non union bakers.
49, The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, wreck a car and have a
short but savage fight with the police.
10 The great tie up of the New York city
! street railroads is off, with the exception of
tho Third avenue line
60 Trains are running without moestation
| on the Gould roads, although the strikers
still profess TO be confident of ultimate sue
| cess.
90 The house committee at Washington
begins its Investigation of the strike on the
Gould roads 1t was continued for some
time.
25 ugar house employees at Williamsburg,
N. V, on strike for an increase of wages.
IS Thirty five members of the New York
Tailors union indicted by the grand jury for
| boycotting
- ILlt 'li iNlils1 o.fNl dliNtS VI lGH hlSSDuIl
| Car company have resumed work The Bal
| timore street car strike has also come to an
| end
81 The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for the
| accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
so Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best,
| and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
| Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury at New York for ordering the
! tie up Of the Third avenue cars.
MAY.
| l. Chicago trades unions demand uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
| ton of wages. The same demands are made
| III many other cities
| I. Forty thousand men in Chicago go on
| strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
cause are general all over the country
| 4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
! perse a meeting of Anarchists was followed
| by a riot in which a dynamite bomb was
| thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
| killing SIX and woundipg sixty-one.
! 5. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
! Tire state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
! 5. More shooting occurred at Chicago be
| tween the police and Anarchists, and leading
! rioters were arrested.
G. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
| 9. The pianomakers of New York have
| abandoned their demand for a reduction TO
eight hours day.
! 10 Big strike at Chicago ended.
70 Abont 1900 girls, employees of the
Troy, n. Y, collar and cuff factories locked
out by the manufacturers on account of the
strike of the laundry girls at George p. Idc 6,
| Co 5 establishment
24 Eight thousand tailorS locked out 10y
the Boss Tailors' union, New York city.
JUNE.
= John Most, convicted of melting to riot,
was sentenced to Imprisonment at hard labor
for one year and to pay fine of $500 at New
York.
s. The convention of Knights of Labor, at
Cleveland, closed The differences with the
| trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted
4 Female members of the families of the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks
s. Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
quit work
&. The Empira Protective association gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road
r. At the meeting Of the Brotherhood of
Telegraphers, at Kansas City, it was decided
TO join the Knights of Labor.
25. Tho Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago,
out on strike, became very demonstrative a
train of cars thrown Off the track.
JULY.
81. Union employees of fourteen New York
cigar factories locked out
S. The men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring to the Widow Iandgraff's
bakery were convicted at New York, before
Judge Barrett, and sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonment Of from ten to thirty days.
%. The National Cigarmaker5' union with
drew from the Knights of Labor
AUGUST.
l6. The cigarmakers of New York, who
had been on strike for some time, determined
to resume work
90. Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
throwing were convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden, Parsons, Fischer Engel and Lingg
were sentenced to death Neebe got fifteen
years in prison.
IS. Broadway surface road tied up. The
| he up was OF short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Three hundred and thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because of a
difference between them and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
6. Monster parade and demonstration of
trades unionists and their sympatbizers in
New York city.
II. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
Is. All the laborers and mechanics Of
Charleston, S. c., struck for an increase OF
wages which was denied The men there
upon resumed work
p, Four hundred and fifty brownstonc
rubbei8 struc!; in New York city against the
employment of a non-union man.
| OCTOBER
j. Armours beef men were ordered to quit
work
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